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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,
VOL. 29, NO. 10,
1387,
doi:10.1029/2002GL014825,
2002
Analysis of adjustments to the United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) temperature database
Robert C. Balling Jr.
Office of Climatology,
Arizona State University,
Tempe,
Arizona,
USA
Craig D. Idso
Office of Climatology,
Arizona State University,
Tempe,
Arizona,
USA
Abstract
The United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) temperature database is commonly used in regional climate analyses.
However, the raw temperature records in the USHCN are adjusted substantially to account for a variety of potential contaminants
to the dataset. We compare the USHCN data with several surface and upper-air datasets and show that the effects of the various
USHCN adjustments produce a significantly more positive, and likely spurious, trend in the USHCN data.
Published 21
May
2002.
Index Terms: 3309 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Climatology (1620); 3399 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: General or miscellaneous; 1610 Global Change: Atmosphere (0315, 0325).
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Citation: Balling, R. C., Jr., and C. D. Idso
(2002),
Analysis of adjustments to the United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) temperature database,
Geophys. Res. Lett.,
29(10),
1387,
doi:10.1029/2002GL014825.
Copyright 2002 by the American Geophysical Union.
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